English

On t-structures adjacent and orthogonal to weight structures

K-Theory and Homology 2025-12-16 v3 Algebraic Geometry Category Theory Representation Theory

Abstract

We study tt-structures (on triangulated categories) that are closely related to weight structures. A tt-structure couple t=(Ct0,Ct0)t=(C_{t\le 0},C_{t\ge 0}) is said to be adjacent to a weight structure w=(Cw0,Cw0)w=(C_{w\le 0}, C_{w\ge 0}) if Ct0=Cw0C_{t\ge 0}=C_{w\ge 0}. For a category CC that satisfies the Brown representability property we prove that tt that is adjacent to ww exists if and only if ww is smashing (that is, "respects C-coproducts"). The heart HtHt of this tt is the category of those functors HwopAbHw^{op}\to Ab that respect products (here HwHw is the heart of ww); the result has important applications. We prove several more statements on constructing tt-structures starting from weight structures; we look for a strictly orthogonal tt-structure tt on some CC' (where C,CC,C' are triangulated subcategories of a common DD) such that Ct0C'_{t\le 0} (resp. Ct0C'_{t\ge 0}) is characterized by the vanishing of morphisms from Cw1C_{w\ge 1} (resp. Cw1C_{w\le -1}). Some of these results generalize properties of semi-orthogonal decompositions proved in the previous paper, and can be applied to various derived categories of (quasi)coherent sheaves on a scheme XX that is projective over an affine noetherian one. We also study hearts of orthogonal tt-structures and their restrictions, and prove some statements on "reconstructing" weight structures from orthogonal tt-structures.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2403.07855,
  title  = {On t-structures adjacent and orthogonal to weight structures},
  author = {Mikhail V. Bondarko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.07855},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Section 2.1 was extended significantly

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